/x/ - Paranormal / Occult

Scary

Fuck man that's spooky. I've been focusing on the ones over the houses because they seem more solvable (and less scary). Some things I noticed:
- Sharp change in colour, I think all of the bars are above it. I'm guessing the boundary is where pictures were taken on a different day, but I'm not sure how to check the date for the satellite images.
- It's NOT data corruption. Every one is either located in the water, or specifically in one of the tiny towns on land
- There are more boxes in every town than the populations of each are listed as on wikipedia from a 2016 census.
- There are none in the city at the bottom, but this doesn't tell us much because it's below the line.

There are some businesses around the lake, if the satellite photos are recent it could be worth sending out emails to dig for info.

im trying to reasonably think as to why there are so many. It's a little odd.

There's a large and active hydroelectric dam operating in that lake. Isn't it possible that the dam produces some sort of RFI/EMF that could've messed up the cameras google used?

Black squares are added to google earth images to cover up sensitive information. Allegedly, this is because they don't want "terrorists" from using google earth to scout and collect intel. Israel used to have a ton of these black spots to stop Hamas and Hezbollah using them. It turned out to be a dumb idea because a black spot was a sure fire way of knowing there was something to hide there so the whole thing doesn't really work.

>>1868
Yeah there's nothing spooky about it. Here's a public list of censored sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellite_map_images_with_missing_or_unclear_data

Usually military stuff.

Update from OP: thanks for the replies <3
Half of the rectangles got covered over recently by some newer (normal-looking) images.
It's probably a bug, but what kinda program does these pix go thru that would cause this? Again, it seems to recognise terrain as none of them touch land.

>>1883
Which area exactly where you searching? What were you looking for? It would help to know where on the map you found these black squares.